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Feeling in Karl Barth's Theology: Schleiermacher, Affect and Joy

Feeling in Karl Barth's Theology: Schleiermacher, Affect and Joy

Nimmo, Paul T.
Jones, Paul Dafydd
Templeton, Julian

Hardcover

Series: T&t Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology

Religion General General Christianity

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 7, 2027

ISBN10: 0567717305
ISBN13: 9780567717306
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: Jan 7 2027
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Julian Templeton examines Karl Barth's shifting treatment of feeling, placing it in conversation with Friedrich Schleiermacher's theology of feeling (Gefühl).

Affect - defined as changeable disposition and environmental attunement - provides an initial orientation and periodic parallel for this study. Templeton argues that Barth had four different responses to feeling. First, as a student of modern theology influenced by Schleiermacher, Barth embraced human feeling as the indicator of Christian truth. Second, as a pastor faced with the demands of preaching and the First World War, Barth critiqued feeling as liable to mislead. Instead, he sought a dynamic objectivity revealed in God's otherness. Third, as a professor of theology confronted with the idolatry of Nazism, Barth repurposed feeling as a self-determination by which the Church corresponds to God's determining Word in Jesus Christ. Fourth, as a theologian influenced by Anselm's prayerful rejoicing in God's glory and beauty, Barth reorientated human feeling by centring it in God's triune being. Glory is the outward demonstration of God's indwelling and overflowing joy. Glory finds its nearest correspondence in Creation's rejoicing.

The Church is part of Creation that intentionally opens itself to God's joy. This intentional openness also enlarges the Church's capacity to be affected by suffering.

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